Australian Street Art: Vibrant Murals & Urban Canvas

Dive into the captivating world of Australian street art with our curated collection of articles. Explore the diverse styles, talented artists, and inspiring locations that make Australia’s urban art scene so unique. From the bold murals of Melbourne’s laneways to the intricate stencils adorning Sydney’s walls, we cover it all. Learn about the history, the social impact, and the creative processes behind these breathtaking works. Discover emerging talents and established masters, and uncover the stories behind the art. Delve into our archive to experience the energy and creativity of Australian street art.

Urbanscreen Lights Sydney Opera House!

German Urbanscreen crew is specialized in large-scale projections on urban surfaces. Recently they lighted the sails at the famous Sydney Opera House, combining the art of light projection, video mapping and motion graphics to extraordinary heights… German design collective Urbanscreen transformed the Sydney Opera House with their Lighting of the Sails. They projected large-scale pictures of people moving on the surface, crawling or walking from different perspectives. The project is part of the Vivid Live Festival running from 25 May to 11 June 2012. Urbanscreen was founded in 2008 and conceives and produces custom-made media installations using high artistic standards and stylistic devices, a spacious architectural background and a consistently professional completion. Their aim is to transfer their concepts into a dialog between art and urban communication. (ignant.de) ...

Lost Culture: Matt Adnate in Melbourne

After his astonishing Point of View exhibition in Berlin, Australian urban artist, photo-realistic painter and writer Matt Adnate is going to open his Lost Culture show in Melbourne! Born and raised in Melbourne, Matt Adnate, has spent years traveling and painting the world. He has contributed to the scene through countless street art murals and exhibitions. In recent years his studio art has been the primary focus with major group, collaborative and solo exhibitions. His work can be seen in cities such as New York, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, Sydney and Mumbai. (Rtist Gallery) ...

Everfresh & Friends Fighting Extinction

The guys, who invented the biggest marker worldwide and created their own graffiti mobile known under the popping name Everfresh, just teamed up with a couple of friends to repaint Melbourne’s infamous ACDC Lane for charity… Zoos Victoria is fighting extinction and has committed to ensure twenty native species do not go extinct on their watch. Enlisting the help of laneway artists from Everfresh and Blender studios, the fight has taken to the streets. The murals will help to raise awareness of some of these critically endangered species, many of which live right in Melbourne’s own backyard. For more info zoo.org.au! ...

Roa in Western Australia

After his successful and much-noticed exhibition in Berlin, the Skalitzers Gallery crew took Roa (our hero when it comes to paint black and white animals) to their home-country, which is why he just traveled Australia during the last months, as the majority of you probably already know. Recently, Skalitzers published some nice photos of the fantastic new murals, Roa was able to paint down-under in the Cities of Perth and Fremantle! Long story made short, here are the photos… ...

The Graffiti Mobile

This fantastic Graffiti Mobile is a dream for every graffiti enthusiast, old or young, talented or not. Famous Australian Everfresh crew (Yes, that are the boys with the biggest marker worldwide!) had the idea to create this fully furnished van, including everything you need for having some good fun in a city. The load contains in addition to a shelf full of cans and caps, paint bucks, rollers, KRink fire-extinguishers, a crowbar, a side cutter and also a mask, a keg of beer and (as a special gimmick) a old-school boombox, what makes it possible to hit the streets totally independent for some days! ...

Robbie Rowlands’ Urban Cuttings

Melbourne-based artist Robbie Rowlands seems to be obsessed by cutting through things, e.g. rooms, trees, houses, chairs, walls, further things and other stuff. The Australian explores notions of stability and vulnerability through the manipulation of objects and environments as Amir knows to report… The artist takes spaces and objects and shapes them in a form that makes them almost unrecognizable, and of course there is certain violence, an element of destructiveness in the process. But the effect is productive. (about Robbie Rowlands) ...

Above’s Street Art Philosophy

Philosophy Art | It seems, that famous street artist Above carries on to travel through Australia. After those flood stencil artworks in Brisbane, you can now find what I would call street art philosophy in Melbourne: More or less profound, large-scale fat-cap slogans on walls… Slogans like “Losing all of your fortune is much less painful painful than losing only half of it!!!”, “Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love” or “Trust people who make a living lying down or standing up more than those who do so sitting down” encourage people to think, although or better because of the final sense seems to be not that clear… ...

Urban Flood Art: Above in Brisbane

Stencil Flood | As I already said, the flood ravished city of Brisbane (Australia) is the new honey pot for not just graffiti artists, who paint trains on the dead, flooded railway lines, but also for street artist. A brilliant example for this street art boom in Brisbane is the new stencil artwork by Above, who recently informed my fellow RJ that he “decided to immediately fly from Sydney to Brisbane to make this site specific stencil”. The stencil shows Noah’s ark as well as an elephant and a giraffe sinking! Above said: ...

Brisbane Flood Graffiti

Graffiti Flood | There are pictures like this that go around the world in those days: Flooded roads, people on the roofs of their houses… and massive graffiti on the trains. Australia’s flooded metropolis Brisbane is experiencing a new graffiti boom! As my friend, who recently came back from Australia, told me and the following flicks confirm, it becomes more and more easier for the writers to paint trains. Because of the evacuated neighborhoods the police is completely overwhelmed and has other things to do than monitor railway lines. Additionally, trains are often parked all night at train stations or on the tracks. The result is that Brisbane is nowadays a paradise for the local crews. The proves it… ...

Bomb It 2 - All Videos Online!

Graffiti Documentary | All parts of the popular street art and graffiti documentary Bomb It 2 are online now! Now you are able to watch the street artists Klone, Inspire and Know Hope in Israel and Phibs from Everfresh and Twoone in Australia as well as Great, Bates, Victor Ash and HuskMitNavn in Copenhagen, Zero in Singapore, and many, many more! Just wanted to let you know that the final episodes of Bomb It 2, which has seen Jonathan Reiss and his crew travel to Asia, Australia, the Middle East and the beyond, exploring the local graffiti scenes and speaking to local artists will be going live today! (via e-mail) ...